Bridget Riley and Lee Mullican and the ‘60s

A catchy name gives traction to an art movement: Abstraction Expressionism (AbX), Pop Art, or Op Art, short for “optical art One of the artists most associated with the latter was the English painter Bridget Riley, born in 1931, who was catapulted to success in the early 1960s.

Art reviews from art critics Edward Goldman and Hunter Drohojowska-Philp.